Ms Siobhán McArdle:

Expenditure on drugs services is broken down across a number of major categories. HSE addiction service account for about 45%. Services provided by the community and voluntary sector account for about 39% or 40%. GPs and pharmacies represent about 15%. This is based on 2022 data. The Health Research Board, which gathers all this information and does the underlying research, accounted in 2022 for about 1% of that funding. Since 2022, there has been a 12% increase in funding for drugs services. I welcome this committee, particularly the attention of the citizens' assembly, attending to what is a really important topic. There is a significant stigma around accessing services. As Professor Keenan said, we do not see very long waiting lists for many of our drug services. This tells us that we need to increase awareness if there are people out there who are struggling with problematic drug use and do not know where to go. When we see things within our health services like increased waiting lists or higher demands in one part of the country-----